GE Global Research gets $1.3 million for carbon capture testing

GE Global Research in Niskayuna has won $1.35 million in federal funding to study two new carbon capture technologies.

Two grants that GE won are part of a broader $41 million research effort by the Department of Energy to push for new technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

One of GE’s grants will focus on testing of a solvent that was developed to capture carbon dioxide called aminosilicone. The other will be used to develop polymer membranes that would also be used to capture CO2.